Fighting a language barrier

Joke: What do you call someone who knows multiple languages? A multilingual; What do you call someone who knows two languages? A bilingual; What do you call someone who knows only one language? An American.

Joke: An American is someone who, when he goes abroad, forgets who the foreigner is.

Joke: An American is someone who, when In Paris, can’t figure out why people there refer to a window as a fenetre.

Americans, by nature, are foreign language aversive, expecting the rest of the world to accommodate them by speaking English. This is why Rudolph’s well-intentioned project is doomed to failure.